--- title: Pigs learn names, solve puzzles and in one study even steered a joys… — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics description: Pigs learn names, solve puzzles and in one study even steered a joystick with their snouts to play a simple computer game. Who acts: Pigs. A sentence of the lesson «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/) / 3 # Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, sentence 3 Pigs learn names, solve puzzles and in one study even steered a joystick with their snouts to play a simple computer game. **Who acts:** Pigs · **What happens:** learn, solve, steer, play · **To what, where:** names, puzzles, joystick, one study, simple computer game This is a sentence of the lesson «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pigs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains.lesson:3 # text = Pigs learn names, solve puzzles and in one study even steered a joystick with their snouts to play a simple computer game. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Pigs pig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 solve solve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 steered steer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 joystick joystick NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 snouts snout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:xcomp 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 computer computer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **learn** | present | Pigs | names | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 2 | **solve** | present | Pigs *not said here* | puzzles | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puzzle=Topic | | 3 | **steer** | past | Pigs *not said here* | a joystick | | one study | | with pigs's snouts | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent joystick=Theme in study=Destination | | 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | Pigs *not said here* | a simple computer game | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains.lesson:3`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/2/) - next →: [Pigs: mud, snouts and brains, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/)